TROTSKY ON THE NEW MASSES THE MILITANT Published Twice a Month by the Communist League of America (Oppositions)
Vol. III, No. 27.
Telephone: DRY dock 1656 NEW YORK, SATURDAY JULY, 26, PRICE CENTS What Fish Committee Means Fighting United Front Needed Against the Sharpening Offensive of the Capitalist Class The 16th Congress of the The bubble of the Whalen documents racy, the aristocracy blamed this movement Union is the friend and ally of the inter frequent play.
has been loudly and derisively punctured. on the gold of the French regicides. The national revolution which is the only guar As the counter action to this capitalThat clown and former police commissioner source of all evil, the Czarist bureaucracy antee that socialist society can be built up ist offensive, the workers must organize Whalen presented these documents as had it, were the Jews. In our present epoch and maintained in any country. But the a fighting united front. To make the proof that Amtorg the official Soviet trad of proletarian struggle, the capitalists find development of the class struggle takes most powerful appeal to the masses in the ing agency in New York was the center of the key to all the riddles of the universe in place on the basis of the conditions in approaching elections, the Communist ParCommunist propaganda for the United. Moscow gold. The one thing they will each capitalist country. The world organi Why should demonstrate its reline to States.
not awmit is that the roots of the revolu zation that fights for the establishment place itself at the head of a movement for Throe witnesses called before the Fish tionary are sunk deep in the crisis of a of a chain of Soviet Republics is the Com working class unity. The immediate obclass society that has outlived its bistoric munist International, The functions of Committee have conclusively demonstrated jectives of this movement should be the usefulness.
from different angles that these docuthe Soviet Covernment and the Coinintern release of all class war prisoners, federal, ments are absolute and unadulterated for.
Commissioned by Congress to investigate are sufficiently distinct without Bog state and municipal grants for the reliet geries. The first witness exposed sixteen of the workless, the enactment of unemCommunist propaganda for the overthrow danov, the Amtorg head, having resort to Sokolnikov worthless, dangerous and of the government, the Fish Committee was internal mistakes and discrepancies that ployment insurance and old age pensions, in reality an expedient to distract attention revisionist subterfuge at the Geneva Econpointed to their fabrication by Russian the six hour day and the five day week, and white guards. newspapermen testified from the misery of the unemployment crisis.
omic Conference to the effect that capi the recognition and extension of larvethat the documents had been offered for scale credits to the Soviet Union.
In line with this policy, the Fish Comtalist and socialist systems can cohabit the sale in Washington six weeks before Whalmittee made a rabid attack on Amtorg. It world peacefully side by side. MAURICE SPECTOR en released them to the New York press.
is no pleasure to the workers of Russia It is imperative to arouse the widest But the most deadly testimony came from to have to trade with the eneral Electric possible mass movement against this Fish the man in whose print shop on Last Tenth or Henry Ford but power in the United Committee and its probable consequences.
street the letterhends of the Whalen docu States still lies in the hands of the capl Elihu Root has already advanced the idea ments were printed.
talist, not the working class. The devel of creating a special secret Federal police, Yo one in the least familiar with the opment of trade even under these condi a sort of American Ochrana to spy more history of the series to which whalen for tions is, however, of direct interest to the effectively over the revolutionary workers. Convoked after two years of calculated geries belonged could have entertained the American working class. Autorg bought Whether Root proposal in this form is rea. manoeuvering for factional advantago the shadow of a doubt as to their true char more than 107, 000, 000 of Anierican goods lized at this time or not, the coming storm sixteenth congress of the Communist Paracter. The Sisson documents of some years in 1928 and was planning to double that and stress period in the class struggle ty of the Soviet Union was one of the most ago, setting out to prove that Lenin and in the near future. The goods that Amtorg will mark more and more vicious attempts ominous events in the annals of the OctoTrotsky were German spies could have purchases here mostly with hard cash go to place heavier shackles on the labor ber Revolution. There has been nothing been convincing only to such a product of towards facilitating the work of socialist movement. The Department of Justice will quite like it in the entire history of Bolthe New York Forward as Moissaye Olgin, construction in the Soviet Union and at be more extensively soleidized and 15 shevisn.
The celebrated Zinoviev letter could impose the same time inevitably alleviate unem stool pigeon activities re enforced. The Enthroned in the midst of the fawning only on the willing credulity of a social ployment for thousands of American work.
revolutionary press will have a constant aduladon of his faction agents. Comrade ers.
imperialist like Macdonald.
strugi;le against being barred from the Duranty of the New York Times included)
This exposcre will, of course not stay The baiting of Amsorg by the Fish (on mails. The industrial espionage system will rose the sinister figure of Stalin, the man the activities of the Fish Committee. It is mittee aided by the Matthew Wolls consti be intensified. The jailing of militants who against whose aims and methods Lenin the time honored practise of the rulng class tute: part and parcel of an attack on the organize the workers will gain momentum. warned in his last testament, striking a always to explain away social unrest as inserests of the American working class. The capitalist campaign to terrorize the note of the most poiguant alarm. Every a malicious foreign importation. When the The defense of the Soviet Union is their foreign born workers by the finger print major leader of the October Revolution had masses were once struggling in England own best defense. This does not mean that and passport route will revive. The crimi been eliminated and crushed by the bureaufor the blessings of parliamentary democ the is any substitute for the ac nal syndicalism and sedition laws of the cracy and its intrigue. But what was worke tion of the American proletariat. The Soviet various states will be brought into more or an accompaniment the Party momentarily lies prostrate. measure of the degeneracy that has net in, is the spectacle of the Right leaders Rykov and Tomsky and others who were compelled by Stalin to drink the bitterest dreks of personal and political humiliation, ly no Dolshevist tradition. Lenin never Comrade Saul has addressed a state Kansas and is making his way East and For the balance of the summer period, the concelved of such a thing against his opment to the Central Executive Committee South for his trial in South Carolina. The Militant has been compell 11 to change of the Communist Party, in which he de Left Opposition welcomes comrade Saul ponents inside the Party in the most desits frequency of issue to a semi monthly perate days of the civil war. But the keyclares his support for the platform of the into his ranks. The following represents basis. This change, which we shall attempt Left Opposition. He joins the Communist some of the views expressed by comrade note of this congress was that in Stalin, to make as brief in durati possible.
the apparatus bureaucracy have far more League of America (Opposition) and de Saul on the situation and needs of the reason to be satisfied than ever under Lenwas forced upon us by two factors: the mands of the Communist Party that it re Communist movement: in.
severe unemployment situation which has instate all expelled members of the Left The contradictions of imperialism are Stalinism reigned supreme at the sixsharply affected the financial income of the Opposition and adopt its platform in the sharper than ever. The objective situation teenth Congress paper, and, added to it, the summer months United States; and in the Comintern.
There was no critical is favorable to the revolutionary movement analysis of the course of political and econduring which a certain organizational and The adherence of George Saul to the of the workers toward the proletarian revo.
financial relaxation usually sets in.
omie events for the past two years. There Communist League following the action of lution and communist socjety.
The change to a semi monthly is an adwas no honest and searching admission of It should be Hugo Oehler. is still further evidence of At the same time there is not the close justment to this situation.
mistakes. Sell praise and self content perthe movement of the mass workers in our relationship between our Party and the vaded the whole Stalin faction. The Condistinctly emphasized to all our comrades direction and the dissatisfacion of the workers as a class which anticipates a gress was a mere ig leat. Id met; it disand sympathizers that the change is in honest Communist Workers with the present growing confidence in our party as the persed. fow organizational charges were no sense of the word a permanent one.
disastrous Party course, and the steady leader in the class struggle.
Plans are even now being elaborated for arranged to make the Master power the return to a weekly publication basis growth of influence among the Commun This is explainable when one consideven more air tight. Such congresses are early in the Fall, and a corresponding ex ists of the ideas of the Left Opposition. ere the inner party situation, the non Lenof the soil of Bonapartism.
Comrade Saul only recently returned from inist tactics being employed.
pansion of the publishing, as well as the It is not the cowardly Rigl13 and work for the Communist Party and Intergeneral activities of the Opposition. The inner Party situation, internationtheir captive leader Rykoy who can give national Labor Defense in the South where The change is undoubtedly a blow to ally and nationally is as follows: Mechanileadership to the Russian proletariat in the our movement, from which all our sup he was very active in helping to organize cal control by bureaucrats; the non Leningreat crisis that looms up ahead of it.
porters can help us recover more speedily the Southern textile workers into the Na ist tactics being applied in connection with That leadership will come from the Iron by immeasurably increasing their financial tional Textile Workers Union. His activity the colonial and semi colonial uprisings; Bolshevik Leninist Opposition led by Trotbeginning immediately. assistance, in the Gastonia and other Southern resky. It will come from the thousands of in trade union activities and strike strugbroadly grounded financial support, OR gions brought about his arrest by the southgles; too much emphasis on legaliemrevolutionists who have been imprisoned ern bourbons and a sentence of six months GANIZED NOW will not only signity a resulting in isolating the workers support.
and deported. It is from the Left Opposlswift return to the weekly Militant, but its on the chain gang. new trial was recenttion in the Party that the Thermidorlane The strongest defense of the Soviet re issuance on a sounder basis, ly granted him and Comrade Saul is return.
will meet with the resistance that will give Union; the most effective struggle against ing forth with to stand trial.
leadership to the revolution in the crucial United, conscientious efforts are rewar and imperialism in Europe, ju Ameri events that are maturing behind the fog quired. We expect the militants through Comrade Saul was also one of the lead ca, throughout the world, will be made of the sixteenth congress. In the next 18 out the country to bend their efforts for ers and active workers for the Communist through the adoption by the Communist Insue of the Militant we propose to puba generous response. The return of the Party, along with comrade Hugo Oehler, ternational of the Leninist line of march 118h a detailed analysis of the significance our joint responsibility. Let it in the Colorado Coal miners strike. He is sponsored by Comrade Trotsky this congre and the situation in th bon with the necolgary speed at present working in the harvest fields of (Continue na Sooviet Union. FORCED RETREAT The Mass Workers Join the Opposition!
George Saul Also Demands That Party Reinstate Our Group for such sell abasement there is absoluto